Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-06-10
DENSLOW'SCU

under the bright cloudless sky OF an
Arkansas summer.
i A soft, dimpled hand shaded her
ewes, and the floating white OF her
morning dress enveloped her like q
summer cloud; altogether it was strik-
ing picture.
The big, rough bearded fellow stand
ing in his ungainly market wagon, the
tired mules, with heads down-hangBg
and their ragged looking ears patheti-
caIly Tapping at the persistent flies,
the rustic basket up-pilei with lus-
cious, satin-cheeked peaches and the
latticed box OF fowl in the rear.
Not at all nm unpleasant picture, "
thought weary invalid Burt Denslow,
as lie sat down opposite them and
noted the homely events.
He had the eye OF an artist, and
always found the picturesque especi-
ally in this wildly romatic village in
the Ozarks.
So he watched the small figure OF
this pretty blonde as she stood there
negotiating with the native of an ex-
change OF fowls, as she said one OF the
hens she had bought at his previous
visit was blind; ar other, she said, had
fits, and she was obliged to have its
head cut off, while the third "laying
hen" persist emily crowed every morn
ing, to her distress and that OF the
invalid mother, on account oil whose
health the two had come there from
Mort bern town.
Matters being satisfactorily adjust
ed, the man drove on with loud
crack of his dashed whip, and she went
into her cottage bearing n basket OF
those tempting peaches.
Twenty hree wears before her moth
err had married DR.. Field, who was an
army surgeon. and she " hospital
ncrse, self-elected, coming South from
her quiet New England home to do her
share in the great st 1,ggle between
North and South. Her lover had
been killed in the first of the war, and
she took her aching heart down into
the blood -sprinked Southern hospit-
mis-, and DR.. Fi,ll had wooed and won
it in this unromantic life, and Mado-
line, their only child, was a natural
physician.
She could never see pain or illness
OF any sort that she aid not seek to
relieve it. 1t was a perfect passion
with her.
She had eagerly read all of her
fathers books. and only the strong
est opposition from both parents pre-
vented her from regularly studying
for the profession. Like all hobby
lists, she had many theories.
She practised on her young friends
when at school, oil tine servants,
since she was n child, had come in for
q share OF "Miss Maddle doctoring,"
and even her parents were Obliged to
submit to her tyrannous rule in that
particular.
Bringing her mother TO Wauako
Springs had been her idea entirely.
She had learned that the water there
was absolutely pure. hence. she said,
having very little OF the solids. it must
eliminate i'll, which in her mamma took
the form OF rheumatism, but as she
to this day suffers still from the dread
companion of damp atmosphere and
north lake winds. it is safe to assume
that Madoline's theory failed in this
instance at least. Another other the
cries was that starvation would take
any poison from thesystem and once,
when only Is, she had starved herself
for several days in order to relieve
herself from the poison OF ivy.
Her cure whether it were faith"
or mind over matter is not known
to this day. WAS certainly effected,
and she always held that as living
example,
At the time OF which write Wanako
Springs was not the thriving metro
politan town it now is, with its huge
cut-stone hotel, ITS railroad and its
omnibus lines,
1t WAS twenty miles from the rail
way and essentially backwoodsy. with
its shaky little cottages setup on pegs,
and Ks unlighted streets and mixed
society.
At that time they had regularly ex-
perience meetings where the inValids
stood up and told what the waters of
the springs had done for the good OF
their afflicted bodies. At one of these
meetings Madeline met Burt Densow
ana he frankly said he was not improv-
ing.
Here, then, was chance for her to
experiment. Some one OF her hobbies
might mere be safely ridden.
She looked Mt him earnestly. He
was not an Observation-Disclosures,
well-built and dark, with the black
ness almost OF an Italian IN hair.
though his beard seemed to have tax.
en- some OF the blondness OF his far.
back Danish ancestry, and his com
pexien was pale and colorless ms mar
bic almost. They becamegood friends.
Electricity and starvation were plain
ly invented to cure this ease.
Denslow was not so i'll that ho coul IA
not see how charming a little girl this
was.
In fact, he fell in love with her. but
she did not reciprocate, rs he was to
her only patient, nothing but n suf-
fering human being.
Nothing so trivial as a love affair
had ever entered into her researches.
The ply steal weli-being OF the pa
tent was all that interested her, al
though she was aware that it was a
hne subject, really very handsome
patient.
He WAS 81 wealthy man. In fact he
had lost his health in q mine where
he had dug gold, and not being con
tent with what he had and could make
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